Roughly eight metres east to west and just over four metres north to south, it is defined on its northern side by a low stone wall and on its southern side by the enclosure boundary itself, as though whoever built it borrowed the existing perimeter rather than go to the trouble of constructing a full fourth wall. That practical economy, if that is what it was, is now one of the few clues left about how the place was used or by whom.

The enclosure it sits within is a recorded site in its own right, and the relationship between the two features raises the kind of quiet question that archaeologists tend to leave open. Did the house belong to the same period as the enclosure, making use of a ready-made boundary? Or did it arrive later, inserted by someone who found a convenient sheltered corner within an already ancient ring of ground? Enclosures of this type in Clare range from early medieval ringforts, which were typically farmsteads enclosed by an earthen bank or stone wall, to structures of much earlier or later date, and without excavation the chronology of either feature here remains genuinely unresolved.

The dimensions are modest by any period's standards: the floor area would have been not much larger than a small modern room. What survives is low and undemonstrative, the kind of remains that reward slow walking and close attention to the ground rather than a quick glance from a distance.